It will be up to the Speaker to announce this afternoon which of the 16 motions, which have been submitted, will be subject to the indicative votes on the withdrawal from and future relationship with the EU. Sir Bill Cash presented the following motion:

Constitutional and accountable government

“That this House respects the will of the people of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and
Northern Ireland as expressed in the referendum of 23 June 2016, on the highest turnout
of the electorate for more than 20 years, after this House had passed the Bill leading
to the European Union Referendum Act 2015 on 7 September 2015 by 326 votes to 53;
recalls that this House authorised the Prime Minister to give notice of the UK’s intention
to withdraw from the European Union under Article 50 of the Treaty on European Union
by passing the Bill leading to the European Union (Notification of Withdrawal) Act 2017
on 8 February 2017 by 494 votes to 122; re-affirms the decision to repeal the European
Communities Act 1972 on exit day which this House took by passing the Bill leading to
the European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018 on 17 January 2018 by 324 votes to 295;
decides once again not to approve the Withdrawal Agreement and the Framework for the
Future Relationship between the UK and the EU which were rejected by this House on 15
January 2019 by 432 votes to 202 and again on 12 March 2019 by 391 to 242; believes that
manipulating standing orders to give precedence over Government business to backbench
attempts to legislate on matters of such fundamental importance is unparliamentary
and tends to the destruction of constitutional and accountable government; and,
notwithstanding the Resolution of the House of 25 March, accordingly makes the
following Standing Order-

‘That the following be a Standing Order of the House (Entrenchment of constitutional and
accountable government):

(1) This Standing Order may not be amended, repealed, suspended, disapplied or varied in
its effect unless a motion to do so is passed without a division, or, if the motion is passed
on a division, the number of members who vote in favour of the motion to do so is equal
to or greater than two thirds of the number of seats in the House (including vacant seats).

(2) No Order may be made to amend, repeal, suspend, disapply or vary the effect of
paragraph (1) of Standing Order No. 14 (Arrangement of public business) which provides
for Government business to have precedence at every sitting subject to the exceptions for
Opposition days, backbench business and Private Members’ Bills in the terms set out in
that Standing Order.”